HI Graceygee, thank you for the read and comment. The mainstream publishing business has changed over the last years. Most are now looking for writers with a following before they will consider your work. If you haven’t yet build a following then self publishing might work and is cheap. The complaint with self published books is that the author never spends money on editing, layout and design, especially the cover. The book was done cheaply, but then looks cheap and is full of errors and is hard to follow. If you are established, then look for an agent to help get you published… but if you self publish spend the extra money to make it look like a real book. Hope this helps and thank you again for the read.